How to make a website blazing fast | GeeksPerHr

Ever wondered why people prefer a Ferrari over a normal car? Why everybody wants a fast processor phone over a normal one? Answer is simple; Speed, it Saves time and avoids frustration.

The same rule applies to the websites. The faster your site is, the better it is for the user.

Clearly, if your site is slow, then it’s costing you your target traffic.

Following steps ensure how you can make it blazing fast, thereby increasing its productivity:

Minimize HTTP requests:

Most of the time spent by a user is on its frontend, downloading images, data, style sheets, scripts etc.

Reducing the number of components reduce the number of HTTP requests to render the page. This is the key to speed up.

Combining all scripts into a single script and combining all CSS into a single style sheet helps too.

A CSS sprite is a way to lessen up image requests:

Image maps can combine multiple images in one.

Combining inline images into your (cached) style sheets is a way to reduce HTTP requests and avoid increasing the size of your pages.

Hence reducing HTTP requests is the first step to make your site faster.

Use a Content Delivery Network:

Geographically, the content should be dispersed to multiple servers worldwide, as proximity of the user to your web server does impact the speed of a site.

The key here is not to redesign your app but to disperse your static content, which will achieve you a much faster response.

Add an Expire or a Cache control Header:

This rule has 2 aspects:

By implementing Never Expire Policy for static components we can make components cacheable.

An apt Cache control header for dynamic components should be there to help browser with conditional requests.

G-zip Components:

G-zip is one of the most popular compression methods. Compression decreases response times by reducing the size of the HTTP response. Normally G-zipping reduces the response size by 70%

Put Style sheets at the top:

Research has shown that moving style sheets to the document HEAD works effectively in loading a page faster. To load a page progressively the browser should display the content as soon as possible. This is more necessary in slow connections and pages with heavy content.

Put scripts at the bottom:

Scripts can block parallel downloads, hence creating a problem. But if images are served from multiple hostnames, one can get more than two downloads in parallel.

Make JavaScript and CSS External:

Using external files also normally produces faster pages because the JavaScript and css files are cached by the browser.

Reduce DNS Look ups:

It generally takes 20-120 milliseconds for DNS to look-up the IP address for a given host-name. The browser can’t download anything from this host-name until the DNS look-up is completed. Reducing the number of unique host-names has the potential to reduce the amount of parallel downloading that takes place in the page. Avoiding DNS look-ups cuts response times, but reducing parallel downloads may increase response times.

Minify JavaScript and CSS:

Minification is the removing of unnecessary characters from the code to reduce its size, hence improving the load time. This include comments, unnecessary white space etc.

In JavaScript’s case, it improves response time as the size of the downloadable file is reduced.

Remove duplicate scripts:

Duplicate scripts tend to give bad performance as it creates unnecessary HTTP requests. Hence same JavaScript file shouldn’t be used twice.

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